Snap-ins and consoles
The management console can host Component Object Model components called ''snap-ins''. Most of Microsoft's administration tools are implemented as MMC snap-ins. Third parties can also implement their own snap-ins using the MMC's KEY_CLASSES_ROOT and KEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\MMC\Snapins/code> registry Registry may refer to:
Computing
* Container registry, an operating-system-level virtualization registry
* Domain name registry, a database of top-level internet domain names
* Local Internet registry
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keys. A snap-in combined with MMC is called a ''management saved console'', which is a file with .msc extension and can be launched using this syntax: mmc path \ filename.msc a 64 32/code>.
Common snap-ins
The most prolific MMC component, Computer Management, appears in the "Administrative Tools" folder in the Control Panel, under "System and Security" in Category View. Computer Management actually consists of a collection of MMC snap-ins, including the Device Manager, Disk Defragmenter
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, Internet Information Services
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(if installed), Disk Management, Event Viewer
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, Local Users and Groups (except in the home editions of Windows), Shared Folders, Services snap-in, for managing Windows services
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, Certificates and other tools. Computer Management can also be pointed at another Windows machine altogether, allowing for monitoring and configuration of other computers on the local network that the user has access to.
Other MMC snap-ins in common use include:
* Microsoft Exchange Server
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(up to version 2010)
* Active Directory
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Users and Computers, Domains and Trusts, and Sites and Services
* Group Policy Management, including the Local Security Policy snap-in; included on all versions of Windows 2000 and later (Home editions of Microsoft Windows disable this snap-in)
* Performance snap-in, for monitoring system performance and metrics
Version history
* MMC 1.0, shipped with Windows NT 4.0 Option Pack.
* MMC 1.1, shipped with SQL Server 7.0 and Systems Management Server
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2.0, and also made available as a download for Windows 9x
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and Windows NT
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. New features:
** Snap-in taskpads
** Wizard-style property sheets
** Ability to load extensions to a snap-in at run-time
** HTML Help support
* MMC 1.2, shipped with Windows 2000. New features:
** Support for Windows Installer and Group Policy
** Filtered views
** Exporting list views to a text file
** Persistence of user-set column layouts (i.e. widths, ordering, visibility and sorting of lists)
* MMC 2.0, shipped with Windows XP
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and Windows Server 2003
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. New features:
** Operating system-defined visual styles
** Automation object model, allowing the capabilities of an MMC snap-in to be used programmatically from outside MMC itself (e.g. from a script)
** 64-bit
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snap-ins
** Console Taskpads
** View Extensions
** Multilanguage User Interface
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MUI is provided by Microsoft as an integrated feature of its operating system Windows 11 down to Windows 2000 with some limitations in older ...
help files
* MMC 3.0, shipped with Windows Server 2003 SP2, Windows XP SP3 and subsequent versions of Windows. Also downloadable for Windows XP SP2 and Windows Server 2003 SP1. New features:
** A new "Actions pane", displayed on the right-hand side of the MMC user interface that displays available actions for currently-selected node
** Support for developing snap-ins with the .NET Framework
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, including Windows Forms
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** Reduced amount of code required to create a snap-in
** Improved debugging capabilities
** Asynchronous user interface model (MMC 3.0 snap-ins only)
** True Color Icon Support (Windows Vista Only)
** New Add/Remove Snap-in UI
** DEP is always enforced. All snap-ins must be DEP-aware.
See also
* List of Microsoft Windows components
The following is a list of Microsoft Windows components.
Configuration and maintenance
User interface
Applications and utilities
Windows Server components
File systems
Core components
Services
This list is not all-inclusiv ...
* Microsoft Windows
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* Windows PowerShell
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References
External links
Microsoft Management Console documentation
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Windows components
Microsoft application programming interfaces
System administration
Windows 2000